Defense

Russian Helicopters has delivered the first prototype of an Arctic transport rotorcraft to the Russian defense ministry.

An Airbus C295W aircraft owned by the Mexican Navy has made the first ever flight to the Antarctica.

Acquisition reform requires speed, resources, commercial pricing—and a little “plain English.”

The German government plans to send Panavia Tornados for operations over Syria in response to a French request for assistance following the terror attacks on Paris earlier this month.

Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) may add language to appropriations bill that would help ULA use the Atlas V to compete for future launches.

Poland’s new government is moving to cancel two key defense tenders agreed by the previous administration.

Russia sells China Sukhoi fighters and special ops helicopters; Indian army scraps Nishant UAV; manned-unmanned teaming demo in South Korea; U.S. sells three Global Hawks to Japan.

From no-fly zones in Syria to the potential return of F-22 production, presidential candidates are talking tougher about defense.

Ashton Carter’s Defense Innovation Unit, Experimental, is quite small and has no budget to speak of.

While the Strategic Defense and Security Review published on Nov. 23 appears to be good news, the government’s pledges appear to do little more than paper over gaping cracks in military aircraft capabilities left by previous reviews.

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The Russian defense ministry says that no warnings of airspace infringement were received by the crew of a Sukhoi Su-24 fighter bomber shot down by Turkey.

Russia plans to strengthen its forces in Syria with increased air defenses and a larger fighter jet presence, after Turkish F-16s downed a Russian Sukhoi Su-24M tactical bomber near the Syrian-Turkish border on Nov. 24.

The U.S. Air Force erred in making some past performance determinations in a recent contract award for F-15 support service in Saudi Arabia, the GAO says.

China and Vietnam took strides toward a better relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s recent trip to Vietnam, but the visit apparently did not derail Vietnam’s plans to bolster its security relationship with Japan.

Ukrainian aircraft manufacturer Antonov says it is in discussions with Honeywell and Dowty as it looks to the West for suppliers for its An-132 aircraft program with Saudi Arabia.

Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital rocket will fly again after achieving an intact powered vertical landing of the launch vehicle and parachute recovery of the unpiloted crew capsule to conclude a test flight.

Moscow is ending military ties with Ankara after a Turkish fighter shot down a Russian aircraft when Turkey said its airspace was violated.

Aerojet Rocketdyne has been awarded a $1.16 billion NASA contract to restart production of the RS-25, the former space shuttle main engine, for the Space Launch System.

While U.S. and Chinese defense officials have been trading barbs over South China Sea patrols, ships from the two navies continue to drill with one another.

The Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding division has opened a new facility that provides work space for the crews of Virginia-class submarine pre-commissioning units while their submarines are under construction.

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An advance in gamma-ray spectrometers could prove valuable in the detection of valuable materials locked under the surfaces of asteroids, moons and other airless bodies.

The U.K. will buy 138 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters and order nine Boeing P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft as part of an $18 billion defense spending hike.